London Borough of Hounslow

Transport Planner Development

About us at Hounslow
We’d love you to join us at the London Borough of Hounslow! Our people are deeply committed to providing excellent services to our residents, doing all we can to make lives as good as they can be.
We are an outstanding council, serving an outstanding borough. With brilliant, visionary leadership, a dynamic Cabinet and a can-do culture, we’ve built strong partnerships which have transformed how we serve one of London’s most diverse boroughs. Hounslow is the world in one place and full of potential. We are stepping up for our residents like never before.

Our Benefits
If you join us, you’ll have access to a range of employee benefits. Read more about these here.

About the Role
We’re looking for a Transport Planner (Development) to work with colleagues and developers, helping us ensure that new developments contribute to delivering our innovative Transport Strategy and Local Plan ambitions.

Exciting things are happening here in Hounslow! We are a growing borough with ambitious targets for new homes and jobs centred around two Opportunity Areas in Brentford Golden Mile and Feltham. Improving our transport network is integral to this ambition and will help us meet our targets for increasing sustainable travel and improving road safety.

We are committed to delivering our objectives to make Hounslow a cleaner, greener, safer, healthier, thriving and liveable place for our residents. Ensuring people have high quality options to travel is an essential part of this aim. Whether that is encouraging more people to walk, wheel and cycle, or working with partners to improve our public transport network you will be at the heart of our aim to improve health, respond to the climate emergency and reduce congestion.

Our Transport Planning & Road Safety team is central to our success and leads on a wide range of transport planning issues from major strategic transport projects to road safety education.

You will be part of a team that assesses the transport impacts of all new developments, ensuring they support our transport strategy and our values. We want developers to share our vision to make the borough healthy, clean, green, safe and accessible for our residents and visitors.

You will provide expert transport advice on applications for planning permission, working closely with our Planning, Housing, Environment and Regeneration teams to promote active and sustainable travel in all new developments. We are consulted on a wide range of developments ranging from large mixed-use developments in the Great West Corridor Opportunity Area which require significant transport improvements, to regeneration of our housing stock, to small applications from householders. You will have the opportunity to become involved in a full range of proposals as we respond to the climate emergency and look to deliver a sustainable future.

A key part of the role will be to work with developers to deliver transport improvements resulting from development, including highway works under S278 and s38 of the Highways Act and other transport improvements under s106 of the Town and Country Planning Act.

You will also assist in the development, review and appraisal of Council transport policy, the Local Plan, planning briefs, supplementary planning guidance.

About the Team You’ll Be Working In
You will be working in the Council’s Transport Planning & Road Safety team, reporting to the Transport Planning Manager (Development), and will be working with colleagues across the Council to support us in achieving the Council’s corporate and transport objectives.

The team delivers our road safety education programme with the aim of meeting Vision Zero by 2041, working closely with schools and other groups to provide pedestrian, cycling and driver skills and awareness training.

We also work with partner, striving to develop our strategic transport network, improving public transport services and accessibility across the borough and ensuring our transport strategy is embedded in all we do.

As Transport Planner (Development) you will be a key part of the team.

Knowledge and Experience
• You will have knowledge of town planning processes including current planning and transport policies, guidance and standards relating to Development Management.
• You will have an understanding of current best practice in the promotion of sustainable transport.
• You will be able to review planning applications and provide sound transport advice, supporting the case for promoting sustainable transport and improving road safety.
• You will have an understanding of the ways in which mitigation measures can be secured to deliver necessary transport improvements.
• You will have experience in developing reports and briefings to support recommendations you’re making in relation to planning and transport issues.

Skills and Abilities
• Excellent written communication skills with an ability to summarise complex proposals into non-technical language and draft clear, concise and accurate reports.
• Excellent oral communication skills and ability to present information and projects for consideration clearly, concisely and persuasively to a wide range of audiences.
• The ability to manage your own workload, prioritising as appropriate, and being able to provide sound transport advice in relation to applications for planning permission.
• Excellent ICT skills, preferably experience of using Microsoft Applications, such as Outlook, Excel, Access and Word; and the ability to work with minimum supervision.
• Personal Style and Behaviours
• An open and approachable manner that allows the postholder to engage positively with colleagues, stakeholders and partners, including voluntary & community groups to drive the delivery of projects successfully
• A calm and clear approach to dealing with contentious and emotive issues and conflict; the ability to persuade others of the merits of a particular proposal
• Baseline Personnel Security Standard (BPSS) DBS check is required.

Read more about the work you’ll be doing in the Role Profile.

Don’t meet every single requirement? We know that sometimes people can be put off applying for a job if they think they can’t tick every box. So, if you can do most of what we’re looking for, go ahead and apply. You may be just the right candidate for the job!

When Interviews Will Be Held and Who to Contact

The key information you need about the role should be in the Role Profile, but if you have any further questions about the role, please contact:

Email: [email protected]
Telephone: 07929330396

Interviews for this role will be held during week commencing 16th December 2024.

The interview format will be a 10-minute presentation followed by questions. Further details will be shared with successful candidates who are invited to interview.

Overview

• Location: Hounslow
• Job Title: Transport Planner Development - Full Time, 36 hours per week
• Salary: £38,934 - £44,331 per annum SO2-PO2 (Career Grade)
• Closes: 9 Dec 2024

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